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Sea Dog

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  1. Is the the TARDIS it's sitting outside? If so, I can see The Doctor being sued by a postman with a bad back...
  2. Put the fox and the grain in the boat, leaving the chicken... Oh, hang on, I think I misread the question.
  3. Having been based where you're going for several years, I'd be surprised if you end up feeling short-changed on river time! You're well placed for the nicest bit of the navigable Severn - up to or back from Stourport and the Staffs and Worcester was always a favourite, even in the winter opening hours. Still is actually, although we start from the Shroppie now. Mind you, we always enjoy Brum too. Nice trip you're on really, eh!
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  5. Slightly tangental to your query, if you're worried about wet decks and/or doormats, have you thought of something like DriDek matting? I have this in my cratch, gas locker and on the steerer's step - rain or spills drain away underneath it leaving you to stand on a dry and thermally insulated surface at all times. Not cheap, but very effective, good looking and long lasting - similar solutions by other brands and cheaper knock-offs are available.
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  7. The cordless one my son bought works on either a pick up from a container (or canal if you're on one and brave enough I suppose) or connected to a mains fed hose. As I said, it was bought for use in a hosepipe ban. It's more powerful when connected to a mains pressure hose, but perhaps that extra power is unnecessary or even undesirable for our application.
  8. Have you considered a cordless one? My son bought one from Screwfix or Toolstation for around £100 during a long hose pipe ban in Devon. Using it with a mains water pressure connection isn't far off a low end Karcher performance wise, but is a little more gentle sucking from a bucket. This might be much more suitable for boat use, both for freedom from mains electricity and mains water requirement and by being kinder to softer boat paintwork, window seals, canvas, etc. Haven't tried it myself yet, but it's on my to do list for spring.
  9. Well, it was drawing 2'8" on Christmas Eve, so then it's the holiday closedown period. Perhaps it was drawing 3'8" on Christmas Day, 4'8" on boxing day, etc, so when the OP next went to see it, he thought it had been sold as it had gone?
  10. Don't poke the bear I'd say. It being "sorted out" is unlikely to be to our benefit.
  11. Mildew I believe. If anyone has got out the black stains it leaves I suspect lots of boatists would like to hear how they did it.
  12. The ones sold by Anne Summers?
  13. Well, to be fair to Mr Ford, he probably assumed owners of electric slippers wouldn't want to pay more for a vehicle with an unnecessary supplementary heater.
  14. I have a flue brush, whether on not it's similar I don't know. Anyway, it's well old now, still in good nick and seems to do a reasonable job. Recently had the 15 year old flue out to replace the collar and there was no significant build up. That said, I burn only smokeless solid fuel and don't suffer from tar, which might be the difference. Actually, if it becomes necessary to follow rules and start burning fully seasoned "ready to burn" approved logs, it's probably worth considering switching to solid fuel, which stays in longer and also takes up less storage space.
  15. My Keis 12v motorcycle heated waistcoat certainly works a treat when I steer the boat in winter.
  16. Same in the Tour de Yorkshire, only it's the fish and chips wrapped in the newspaper that keep you warm...
  17. In my defence, I bought drinks and evening meals there so I did give it a fair crack of the whip!
  18. Seems entirely reasonable to me. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't awful - it just wasn't a place I'd be interested in using if I stopped near it l again. ETA. It was September the 13th, so maybe being "black Wednesday" it was an off-night!
  19. I'd crash in those circumstances. My seaman's eye gets very offended and won't let me stare at one for very long.
  20. I'm a bit surprised you went twice tbh - I won't be doing that.
  21. We ate there in September last. I was somewhat less than whelmed. Quite a few folk obviously off boats in there, but if there were any locals I didn't spot them. My guess would be that the location and transient nature of the clientele means they don't need to try too hard and any extra effort would be hard to justify as it would not figure on their balance sheet in any positive way.
  22. Wasn't yours a blower though as opposed to wet radiator central heating?
  23. Sorry Alan, you'd already answered the servicing query - which further supports my own "Reliability Centred Maintenance" approach!
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